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Friday, August 24, 2012

Clement Lefebvre, father of the Linux Mint
project, proudly announced a few minutes ago, August 24th, that the
codename for the upcoming Linux Mint 14 operating system will be Nadia.

Linux Mint 14 (Nadia) will be available for download at the end of
November 2012, and it will be shipped with separate MATE, Cinnamon, KDE
and Xfce editions. However, it has not yet been decided which desktop
environment will be the default for Linux Mint 14.

The
developer says that Nadia, Linux Mint 14, will be compatible with Maya,
Linux Mint 13. The distro will probably be based on Canonical's upcoming
Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) operating system, due for release on
late October.

"Linux
Mint 14 will be named "Nadia" and should be available at the end of
November 2012. In Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars Trilogy, Nadezhda “Nadia”
Chernyshevski is Maya’s best friend," explained the Linux Mint developer.

"Nadia
is pronounced NAH-d’-yah. It is the English form of Nadya, which itself
is the pet form of Nadezhda and is Russian for "hope". It’s also a
variant of Nadiyya which, in Arabic, means "moist, tender, delicate"," Clement Lefebvre in the blog announcement.

As usual, Linux Mint 14 will be supported on both 32-bit and 64-bit
architectures. It will feature Firefox 16, Thunderbird 16, Linux kernel
3.5, and many more.

About Linux Mint

Linux Mint is and will always be an elegant, easy-to-use, up-to-date,
100% free and comfortable Linux operating system based on the very
popular Ubuntu OS.

It offers paid commercial support to
companies and individuals. Also, free community support is available
from the forums and the IRC channel.

If you find difficulties running your XBOX 360 controller, then
this tutorial will help you install it on a computer running
Ubuntu/Linux Mint, and also show you how to configure it. This tutorial
is workable for both wired or wireless X-Box 360 controllers.Getting Started

To be able to use your Xbox 360 wired/wireless controller under Ubuntu
12.04 (Precise Pangolin) or Linux Mint 13, you need first to install
some required packages. So, open the terminal and run this command:

sudo apt-get install --install-recommends jstest* joystick xboxdrv

Connect now your game controller to your PC via USB (wired) or connect
your XBOX 360 PC wireless gaming receiver for your wireless controller,
then run this command to start the configuration:

We have previously covered some amazing GTK3 themes for Ubuntu, you can check them here.
Today, we will also introduce more GTK3 themes that you can use with
Unity or Gnome Shell. To make the installation of these various themes
easier, I have uploaded them to UpUbuntu custom PPA.
To enable these themes, you can either use Gnome Tweak Tool,
or run simply the commands given below. To add our custom PPA for
Ubuntu 12.10/12.04/11.10 or Linux Mint 13 (Maya) or older, open the
terminal and run the following commands:

Kris Moore has announced the availability of the first release candidate for PC-BSD 9.1: "The
RC1 images for the upcoming PC-BSD 9.1 are now available for i386 and
amd64 architectures. This release candidate provides both users and
developers a means to test out new features in the upcoming PC-BSD 9.1
release. This snapshot may contain buggy code and features, so users are
encouraged to run it only on non-critical systems. Changes since the
previous beta: Based on FreeBSD 9.1-RC1; added new functionality to the
warden client - you can now schedule daily or hourly creation of jail
snapshots; improve the shutdown scripts to make sure we unmount, even if
the jail was manually stopped; added Active Directory / LDAP backend
and GUI utility...." Read the release announcement for a complete changelog and errata notes. Download: PCBSD9.1-RC1-x86-DVD.iso (3,962MB, SHA256), PCBSD9.1-RC1-x64-DVD.iso (4,058MB, SHA256).

Kate Stewart has announced the release of Ubuntu 12.04.1, the first of the regular updates planned throughout the product's life cycle: "The
Ubuntu team is very pleased to announce the release of Ubuntu 12.04.1
LTS (Long-Term Support) for desktop, server, cloud and core products.
The Ubuntu LTS flavors are also being released today. In the 12.04.1
release, we've added support for the Calxeda ECX-1000 SoC family, so
businesses can prepare for a data centre dominated by low-energy,
hyperscale servers by testing their workloads on the new hardware now.
The Ubuntu Cloud archive also makes its début." Read the rest of the release announcement for further information. Download (SHA256): ubuntu-12.04.1-desktop-i386.iso (695MB, torrent), ubuntu-12.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso (694MB, torrent). All of Ubuntu's official sub-projects with long-term support status have also been updated to version 12.04.1; this includes Kubuntu (download), Xubuntu (announcement, download), Edubuntu (announcement, download) and Mythbuntu (download).

Ken Smith has announced the availability of the first release candidate for FreeBSD 9.1: "The
first release candidate of the 9.1-RELEASE release cycle is now
available on the FTP servers for amd64, i386 and powerpc64. Current
plans are for there to be one more RC build, followed by the release
itself. If you notice any problems you can report them through the
normal Gnats PR system or on the 'stable' mailing list. With both the
doc and ports repositories now moved to SVN it has been decided to not
export the 9.1 release branch activity to CVS. So csup/cvsup update
mechanisms are not available for updating to 9.1-RC1. If you would like
to use SVN the branch to use is releng/9.1. The freebsd-update(8)
utility supports binary upgrades of i386 and amd64 systems running
earlier FreeBSD releases." Here is the brief release announcement. Download: FreeBSD-9.1-RC1-i386-disc1.iso (524MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-9.1-RC1-amd64-disc1.iso (637MB, SHA256).